With location technology, you can visualize climate impacts, analyze risk in-house, and strategize for sustainable portfolios.
Climate change poses new and uncertain risks to financial portfolios, from sea level rise that threatens insured assets to supply chain disruptions that destabilize investment funds.
As your organization looks for ways to accurately factor complex, climate-related risks into assessments and disclosures, technology is on your side. Esri, the leading provider of geographic information system (GIS) technology worldwide, provides the data, analysis, and visualization you need to see climate risk clearly.
On a map, you can see all of your distributed assets—and their associated risk factors and scores—at a glance. Understand quickly where climate risk fits into your portfolio, and coordinate risk acquisition, retention, and reduction across departments or accounts.
Financial climate risk is global, but it doesn’t look the same everywhere. Maps and layers of spatial data help you sort through composite, widespread risk factors and identify specific threats to the assets, investments, and insured properties in your portfolios.
Give regulators, stakeholders, and clients the evidence-based reports they need to feel confident in your organization’s financial resilience. Generate and share intuitive map-based visuals that help everyone see where investments and policies stand.
GIS technology is enterprise ready. Measure all kinds of business data—from market sentiment to insured property records—against climate risk exposure so everyone can make decisions that move your organization toward holistic, long-term resilience.
ArcGIS is Esri’s market-leading GIS software. Discover an enterprise-grade system with end-to-end capabilities for understanding, analyzing, and managing climate-related financial risk.
Authoritative data
ArcGIS connects you with authoritative, ready-to-use data for evaluating the type, likelihood, and severity of climate risk anywhere in the world. Layer information like imagery, weather and climate trends, environmental health indicators, economic activity, and more to create thorough composite risk scores that help you prioritize mitigation and divestment.
Assessing risk to critical assets: Using authoritative coastal flooding data, this map displays how critical infrastructure assets could be affected by rising sea levels. Explore the map.
Precise mapping
ArcGIS is purpose-built for making digital maps that show where specific resources are located—and what’s happening there—anywhere in the world. Quickly make maps of locally, regionally, and globally distributed holdings; supply chains; and potential investments to see where you can best grow and manage your whole portfolio.
Understanding physical risk to facilities: This dashboard uses geospatial data to create risk scores for the various physical risks that could impact businesses by location. Explore the map.
Advanced data processing
Quantifying climate risk requires combining variables like climate events, who and what those events might impact, and the value of impacted assets and investments. ArcGIS can process and analyze data from multiple sources—from satellite imagery to real-time feeds—to translate climate risks into real costs (or opportunities) for your business or clients.
Calculating county-level risk: This map uses authoritative data about hazard-related losses to identify which hazards pose the greatest threat by US county.
AI and predictive modeling
ArcGIS analyzes information both spatially and temporally, applying advanced analytics like machine learning models to predict how datasets will change over time. See what your climate risk looks like today and project your portfolio performance into the future to understand the potential outcomes of different mitigation or acquisition decisions—and build resilience.
Visualizing a climate-impacted future: Using NOAA climate projection data, this map shows the total number of days over 90 degrees Fahrenheit projected by 2050. Explore the map.
If you have physical assets that could be threatened by climate, Esri can bring the data and processes to bear to target operational resiliency opportunities.
Read about financial institutions, investment firms, insurers, and more that are using GIS and location intelligence to make climate-resilient decisions.
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This five-step guide to climate risk assessment and mitigation details how business leaders can gain risk portfolio visibility, create precise risk assessments, and develop strategies to minimize disruption by using GIS technology.
Connect with an Esri expert to discuss how GIS can support your organization’s missions and goals.